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“As they explain in their foreword, there are a lot of daily experiences without words, and a lot of words that do nothing other than ‘loafing about on signposts pointing at places.’ So they match place names – ranging from villages to countries – to new definitions, so that these useless words can ‘make a more positive contribution to society.'” Read more...
“I think it came from a game Douglas played at school with his English teacher, of whom he was very fond, Frank Halford. He pops up in a couple of documentaries. Douglas would play this game with him, and later Douglas played it as a kind of drinking game. They did it from both angles—sometimes they’d come up with a human experience that doesn’t yet have a name, or an object, or a feeling, something that we’d all recognise but doesn’t have a defined name. Then they’d come up with a string of placenames and try to put them together.” Read more...
Kevin Jon Davies, Film Director
